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ORIGINAL WEST END PLAY: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE @ Pingshan Theater
May 11 @ 7:30 pm – 11:59 pm
Synopsis:
1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. When one of the party dies suddenly they realise they may be harbouring a murderer among their number.
Then, death happens one after another. Since they are all alone on this island, who will be the killer?
Clarissa Christie：
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award. Later that year, Witness for the Prosecution received an Edgar Award for best play. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies. In 2013, she was voted the best crime writer and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd the best crime novel ever by 600 professional novelists of the Crime Writers’ Association.
Notable Works: Creation of characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Death on the Nile, The Murder at the Vicarage, Partners in Crime, The A.B.C. Murders, And Then There Were None and The Mousetrap.
IP Intro：
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie is a mystery novel published by the Collins Crime Club in November 1939, which has sold over 100 million copies in more than 50 languages and has had more adaptations than any other work by Agatha Christie.
- The world’s best-selling crime novel of all time
- One of the best-selling books of all time in human history
- Listed as the sixth best-selling title in any language
Timeline:
1939:The original novel was published.
1943: The stage play adaptation written by Agatha Christie.
1945: The first film adaptation directed by Rene Clair.
2005:The stage adaptation written by Kevin Elyot and directed by Steven Pimlott.
2014:The Chinese stage version directed by Yi Lin and produced by Shanghai Mousetrap Drama Studio.
2015: The BBC miniseries adaptation to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Christie’s birth.
2021:The new stage version directed by Lucy Bailey.
Production Highlights:
- Original London West End Cast
- Award-Winning Creative Team
- Timeless & Breath-taking Story
- Tension between Justice & Humanity
- From the UK Tour to the Next Leg in China
Casts：
Geenral Macarthur, Jeffery Kissoon，
Jeffery Kissoon is an award winning actor, director and drama teacher who has worked extensively in British theatre, television, film and radio. He has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company at venues such as the Royal National Theatre, under leading directors such as Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn, Nicholas Hytner, Robert Lapage, Calixto Bieto and Janet Suzman. He trained at Canley College, Warwick University and began his acting career playing “Malcolm” in Peter Coe’s production of “The Black Macbeth at the Roundhouse Theatre, London.
In theatres, he has acted in genres from Shakespeare to modern theatre. His theatre credits include: In The Jungle Of Cities (Arcola); Julius Caesar (title role), Measure For Measure, As You Like It, Love’s Labours Lost, The Jail Diary Of Albe Sachs, The Tempest (RSC); Orestes; Oedipus the King; Macbeth; Othello; King Lear; The Tragedy of Hamlet; The Merchant of Venice; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Antony and Cleopatra; The Threepenny Opera; Marino Faliero; War and Peace; Dr Faustus; A Taste of Honey; Waiting For Godot; The Caucasian Chalk Circle; etc. His theatre directing credits include: Hamlet, Danny And The Deep Blue Sea (Nubian Nights).
Film credits include: Hamlet, Dirty Pretty Things; The Nativity Story; Star Wars: The Force Awakens; etc. He played the lead role in the film Ham and the Piper, for which he won the Best Lead Actor Award at the 2012 Peloponnesian International Film Festival.
Television credits include: BBC Play for Today; Space: 1999; Grange Hill; The Adventure of Young Indiana Jones; The Tragedy of Hamlet; EastEnders; Holby City; Doctors; Marple; Kiss of Death; Casualty; etc. Awards: Peloponnesian International Film Festival Best Lead Actor Award (2012).
Emily Caroline Brent, Katy Stephens
British Actress.
Katy Stephens has appeared in leading roles with Shakespeare’s Globe and the Royal Shakespeare Company with whom she is an Associate Artist. Stephens’ awards include the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actress in 2009 for her performance as Joan of Arc/Margaret of Anjou in the RSC’s The Histories Cycle as well as being part of the team that won the Olivier Award for Best Ensemble Performance for the same show.
Stephens’ work with the Royal Shakespeare Company includes Rosalind in As You Like It, Tamora in Titus Andronicus, Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, Regan in King Lear, Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew, Sarah in Mark Ravenhill’s Candide, Katy in Silence, a co-production with Filter Theatre, and Joan of Arc/Margaret of Anjou in Sir Michael Boyd’s Histories Cycle.
Work for Shakespeare’s Globe includes Clytemnestra in The Oresteia, Calpurnia in Julius Caesar and Iras in Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Tempest.
Other appearances include: Cominius in Coriolanus (Sheffield Crucible); Agrippa in Antony And Cleopatra (National Theatre); Lady Macbeth in Othello (Bristol Tobacco Factory Theatres); Titania in Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bath Theatre Royal); Myrtle Logue in The King’s Speech (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); etc.
Stephens also runs Bold As Bard with Ego Performance Company in Coventry, a Shakespeare theatre company for adults with learning disabilities.
Captain Phillip Lombard, Joseph Beattie
English Actor.
Joseph Beattie trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is a former member of the National Youth Music Theatre.
Theatre credits include: Oliver! at the Edinburgh Festival for the National Youth Music Theatre. Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the English National Opera Covent Garden Festival, Freemasons Hall, Hampton Court. Roberto Zucco (as Roberto Zucco) at the Barbican.
TV credits include: Mansfield Park, Marple, Malice Aforethought, Words of the Blitz, Mr Selfridge, Obsession, East Enders, Midsomer Murders, Fast Track: No Limits, Vincent, Holby City, Egypt: Rediscovering a Lost World, Colditz, Seesaw, Tom Brown’s Schooldays, Hex, Borgia, and Silent Witness.
Film credits include: The Browning Version, Volcano, Brideshead Revisited, The Sleeping Room, Velvet Goldmine.
Georgina Rogers, Lucy Tregear
Actor, singer.
Theatre credits include: Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall); A Parisian Salon (Senate House); Room (Stratford East, Abbey Theatre); Cocktail Sticks (Watermill) The Silver Sword, (tour); Relatively Speaking, Much Ado About Nothing, The Real Thing, Lady Betty, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, By Jeeves.
TV credits include: Manhunt series 2, The Robinsons, Footballers’ Wives, Family Affairs, Between The Lines and Peak Practice.
Film: Romeo and Juliet, The House of Knives.
Fred Narracott & Understudy,
Matt Weyland
Theatre includes: Emmeline (Cockpit Theatre & UK tour), Witness For The Prosecution (London County Hall), For The Sake of Argument (Bridewell Theatre), Alcotraz (London & Brighton), Bess The Commoner Queen (Guildhall Derby & UK tour), Delorean (Assembly Rooms/Edinburgh Festival), Dr Blighty (Knuthut/Brighton Festival), The Crucible (Old Vic), Passion Play (Duke of York’s/West End), Dandy Dick (ATG/Theatre Royal Brighton & UK tour), Pinter’s New World Order (Hydrocracker/Brighton Festival), Porridge (Calibre Productions/UK tour), Jungle Book (Birmingham Stage Company / UK tour), Treasure Island (Birmingham Stage Company / Old Rep & UK tour), The Caretaker (Marlborough Theatre/Brighton), Once A Catholic (Pavilion Theatre/Brighton), Snowy Night (Brighton Festival), Sikes & Nancy (Nightingale Theatre/Brighton).
Film & TV includes: Not Going Out (BBC), Detectorists Xmas Special (BBC), This England (Sky Atlantic), The Ipcress File (ITV), Suspicion (Apple TV+), Call The Midwife (BBC), Surge (BFI), Eastenders (BBC), The Crucible (Old Vic/Digital Theatre), Miranda (BBC), Crimewatch Solved (BBC), Dead Ringers (BBC), It’s Me or The Dog (Channel 4), The Art Heist (Sky Arts).
Creatives:
Director: Lucy Bailey
Lucy Bailey is a British theatre director, known for productions such as Baby Doll at Britain’s National Theatre. Bailey founded the Gogmagogs theatre-music group (1995–2006) and was Artistic Director and joint founder of The Print Room in West London (2010-2012). Recently, she has directed a staggering production of Agatha Christie’s Witness For The Prosecution at London County Hall, immersing the audience into the text.
Recent productions include: Oleanna; Ghosts; Switzerland; Cave; Love From A Stranger; The Graduate; Comus, A Masque In Honour Of Chastity; Kenny Morgan. Other theatre credits include: Macbeth, Timon of Athens, As You Like It, The Maid’s Tragedy ; The Winter’s Tale, Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar; Baby Doll, The Night Season; Great Expectations, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Dial M for Murder; Gaslight; The Importance of Being Ernest; Fortunes Fool ; King Lear.
Set and Costume Designer: Mike Britton
Recent credits include: Great Expectations (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre), Abigail’s Party (Menier Chocolate Factory), The Late Middle Classes (Domnar Warehouse), That Face (Royal Court, London), The Winter’s Tale (RSC).
Media Reviews:
- whatsonstage:
The story is so darned clever and there’s a perennial fascination with seeing how a director can reinvent a familiar tale. - Theatre Scotland:
And Then There Were None is a smart, twisting journey through suspicion and deceit that will grasp an audience.
Time:
May 9th 19:30
May 10th 19:30
May 11th 19:30
May 12th 14:30
May 12th 19:30
Duration: 145 min ( Intermission: 20 min)
Venue:
Pingshan Theatre
Price:
880/680/480/280/180 RMB
Venue Address:
Pingshan Theatre, Huide Road, Pingshan Distrect, Shenzhen （深圳市坪山区汇德路坪山大剧院）
Metro:
Line 14 to Pingshan Square Station (坪山广场站), Exit D1
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Tel: 0755-89336660
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